Notable Quotables
1. "Idealism and success are not incompatible....Find your own Calcutta" – Bill Bradley, 6 June 2001, Menlo School
2. "If you express what is uniquely you, what is deep inside you, it will free you. If you do not, it will kill you." --author unknown
3. "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. -- Confucius
4. "The opposite of life is not hate but indifference. The opposite of life is not death but indifference." Elie Weisel
5. "Life is just one thing after another" – Homer Simpson
6. "Never hit a person with glasses; always use something bigger and heavier instead." - Les Barker
7. "Those who control the present, control the past. Those who control the past, control the future" – George Orwell in 1984.
8. "Political correctness is the elevation of sensitivity over truth – Bill Maher
9. "Historians and biographers are accused of bringing people of the past to life only to arrange them in all sorts of patterns of which they were ignorant.” --Virginia Woolf
10. "To be ignorant of history is to remain forever a child" -- Cicero
11. "Those who think they can’t make any difference in the world have never been in bed with a mosquito."– Julia Butterfly Hill
Some historical maxims (as recalled by Dr. Charles Hanson):
12. "Change does not equal progress"
13. "Intention does not equal results"
14. "Change provokes a backlash"
15. "Where you stand depends on where you sit"